The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
-Simon Van Booy
"Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories"
Quotations
Silence
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
-Thomas Merton
"No Man Is an Island"
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
-Confucius
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-Benjamin Franklin
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.
-Nicholas Sparks
"The Notebook"
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
-Ludwig Wittdenstein
"Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
Silence is the first door to spiritual eminence.
-A Spiritual Leader "Adi Sankara"
